Mieruba -ML

24/12/2023

Mil mundos 🗞️🌍🎶
Radio Clásica (Radio Nacional de España)
Noticias de África
News from Africa
🎙️ Juan Antonio Vázquez
▶️ https://mundofonias.com/wp/?p=7033

· Baba Sissoko & Jean-Philippe Rykiel
· Volker Goetze, Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko & Alejandro Moreno (FlamenKora)
· Maher Cissoko
· L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
· Al Bilali Soudan
· Idrissa Soumaoro 📸
· Mulugeta Bezaw
· Ukandanz
· Bosco Rakoto
· Saroyé

22/12/2023

Idrissa Soumaoro's Diré between the 50 best albums of 2023 on Pan African Music ❤️

Listen in on 2023 with our pan-African selection from Durban to Tunis, Nairobi to Niamey, featuring the likes of Amaarae, MC Yallah, or Omagoqa.

22/12/2023

'Mama Sissoko ressurgit avec un live mythique de 1998.

Mathieu Girod pour son dernier spoil de l'année 2023 nous amène à travers la nostalgie de l'hiver et des fêtes de fin d'année. Mama Sissoko, dandy mandingue, membre du légendaire orchestre malien Super Biton de Ségou nous fait redécouvrir son œuvre au sein d'un album live qui rassemble les enregistrements d'un concert donné à Paris à La Villette en 1998. Plus de vingt-cinq ans après, cet opus nous ramène à un moment fort de sa carrière, l'époque de son fameux disque "Soleil de Minuit".

Mama Sissoko, ce même joueur de n'goni et de guitare, va marquer l'histoire de son pays en infusant sa musique de sonorités mandingues et de salsa, associées à ses solos inspirés et son génie.

Un bon dans le passé qui nous fait tant apprécier le vivant et l'énergie du live à travers de magnifiques titres.'

Spoiler de 'Live' by Mama Sissoko on Radio Nova Lyon.
Merci Mathieu Girod !

Mathieu Girod pour son dernier spoil de l'année 2023 nous amène à travers la nostalgie de l'hiver et des fêtes de fin d'année. Mama Sissoko , ...

22/12/2023

Malian guitar maestro Mama Sissoko on World Music Central.
Thank you Angel Romero

Fondation Super Biton,Ségou
Françoise Huguier

Mama Sissoko was born in 1949 in Nioro du Sahel, 450 km north of Bamako, Mali. As a teenager, his parents entrusted him to his uncle Jeli Baba Sissoko in Bamako, a prominent griot and ngoni player. In this musical environment, Mama's introduction to music was inevitable. Starting with percussion, he...

16/12/2023

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15/12/2023

A 8/10 review of Diré by Idrissa Soumaoro written by Piercarlo Poggio for the italian magazine Audioreviews!

Thank you very much !!

14/12/2023

MAMA SISSOKO_Part #3

In 1988, with the help of Françoise Huguier, Mama formed his own group, ‘le Ton Jon de Ségou’. Three years later, he began a new solo career between his native Mali and Paris. He recorded ‘Narena’, his first cassette under his own name, in 1991. With the help of Rémy Kolpa Kopoul, he performed on several major stages, opening for BB King at the La Villette Jazz Festival, and had a huge success at La Chapelle des Lombards, in particular when he invited the Brazilian singer Teca Calazans to join him in a duet which was to appear on his first CD ‘Jarabi’ (1997). The multiple rhythms of Bobo, Bambara, Sarakolé, Peul, Songhaï and Mandingue weave the fabric on which Mama Sissoko builds his compositions largely influenced by blues and jazz. Then came a second album, ‘Soleil de Minuit’ (1999), dedicated to her sister Nassima, produced like the previous one with her accomplice Michel Zacha and a number of Malian, Guinean and Colombian musicians. In 2000, Mama Sissoko decided to move to Ségou, where he resumed his work with the Super Biton Orchestra alongside other members and new musicians, passing on the baton to future generations. In 2004, Santana and Herbie Hancock asked him to play with them at the Montreux Festival.
In 2023, Mama Sissoko was awarded the Mérite national.

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14/12/2023

Yer 'tis… THE BEST OF 2023 from the world of folk, roots music and associated weirdos… the annual Podwireless Best Albums Of The Year. Treat your ears to a special hour podcast with the best of the best, and see the full list of 50 CDs picked for your attention from the more than 350 that got through the difficult first filter for Podwireless play during the year.
https://www.podwirelesswords.com/2023/12/podwireless-best-of-2023.html

14/12/2023

Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection Vol 2 MEILLEURE COMPILATION, RÉÉDITION OU CD HISTORIQUES selon Podwireless

https://www.podwirelesswords.com/2023/12/podwireless-best-of-2023.html

Deviation Records
Fondation Super Biton,Ségou
Mama Sissoko

14/12/2023

DIRE by Idrissa Soumaoro in Muzikifan top new releases of 2023 !

http://muzikifan.com/

14/12/2023

'Music is like cotton or gold: a raw material that is extracted in Mali'.

Marcello Lorrai

A collective runs a cultural centre and a record company in Ségou, an unstable area of Mali. To keep the art scene alive and because ‘music and the desire to live cannot be stopped’. Now with

12/12/2023

The Motherland influence has spoiled a title from Mama Sissoko 's album 'Live'
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08/12/2023

'For the third consecutive month, musician and educator Idrissa Soumaoro from Mali, Africa, and his album Diré are among the top three albums in the World Music Charts Europe. It was first in October and November and is now third.'

Thank you Milan Tesař for featuring Diré by Idrissa Soumaoro in Hudební kompas, Radio Proglas show!

Už třetí měsíc po sobě je mezi nejlepšími třemi alby v hitparádě World Music Charts Europe hudebník a pedagog z afrického Mali Idrissa Soumaoro a jeho album Diré. V říjnu a listopadu byl první a nyní je třetí. Album si představíme ve středu 6. prosince 2023 v odpoledním Hudeb...

07/12/2023

DIRE by Idrissa Soumaoro in the top 10 of 2023 best albums !!!
Congratulations to the legendary Idrissa Soumaoro !!

SEGOU TO LAGOS by Solomane Doumbia in the list too!

06/12/2023

MAMA SISSOKO_Part #2

In 1974, Mama Sissoko joined ‘Le Super Biton de Ségou’, as lead singer and guitarist. For 10 years, the group toured Europe and Africa, playing in Angoulême (Musiques Métisses festival) and Paris (Palais des Glaces, Casino de Paris), and in East and West Germany in 1986.

National recognition came in 1970, during the first Cultural Biennial organised by Moussa Traoré. The Biton regional orchestra - not yet known as «Super» - wowed young Malians with its silky brass, subtle guitars, roaring bass, lyrical vocals and resolutely modern sound. On this occasion, Mama Sissoko won the Ebony Guitar prize. «In 1991, with the change of regime, Alpha Oumar Konaré told the musicians to take charge, and the Biennales came to an end,» he recalls. Marked by the death of several historic members, disillusionment and wanderings, the group went on hiatus and the musicians tried their luck solo.

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03/12/2023

MAMA SISSOKO_ Part #1

Mama Sissoko was born in 1949 in Nioro du Sahel, 450 km north of Bamako. When he was a teenager, his father Bassidi Sissoko and mother Manthia Kouyaté sent him to Bamako to live with his uncle Djeli Baba Sissoko. Djeli Baba Sissoko was a renowned griot and n'goni player in Bamako, and young Mama was naturally introduced to music in this environment. Mama began by accompanying Sissoko on percussion, before taking up the guitar. It was then that he spent his school grant money on an acoustic guitar and managed to convince the mayor of his home town to invest in an electric guitar. He began to play the guitar, self-taught, and developed his own particular style, derived from n'goni playing and Bambara specificities. When he did his military service, he joined the 'Orchestra A de Bamako'. For six years he played with the 'Orchestre National de Bamako' and accompanied it on tours throughout Mali and abroad, including Libya. During the presidency of Modibo Keïta, he played for Kwame Nkrumah, Haïlé Sélassié, and for Che Guevara in Mopti. During the 70s, the Malian music scene was heavily influenced by American music, and Mama affirmed his affinity with blues and soul music, particularly that of Otis Redding.

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02/12/2023

📣📣📣Without waiting any longer, Mieruba is excited to announce the forthcoming release of Live, the album by the greatest guitarist Mama Sissoko!!
A veteran of the great Malian orchestra, the Super Biton de Ségou, Mama Sissoko is an accomplished musician. His music traverses Mandingo, Bambara, Sarakolé, Songhai, Bobo, Peul, Malinke and Bozo traditions, all while flirting with jazz. On stage, Mama Sissoko is a purist who engages with the audience bringing his energy, urgent vocals and truly inspired guitar solos throughout the concert. ‘Live' brings together recordings from a concert given in Paris at La Villette in 1998 and takes us back to a high point in Mama Sissoko's career.
In ‘Live’, we find tracks from Mama Sissoko's second solo album ‘Soleil de Minuit’, which was released in 1999 by Buda Music. As on the album, the different guitars overlap without compromising the unity of the music, rendering an earthy atmosphere despite being very complex. The recording of this concert was superb. We can hear every note, every nuance, every instrument and voice in the many-layered compositions.
Accompanied by incredible musicians, including Toussaint Sainé, his partner in the Super Biton orchestra, ‘Live’ plays in the timeless way of Malian music. What's more, it gives us the gift of its most direct and powerful dimension, that of live music, as if 20 years hadn't passed.
'Live' will be released on 2LP Gatefold/CD Digipack and digitally on 26 January.
PRE-ORDER our copy now and taste the opening of the concert:
https://mamasissoko.bandcamp.com/album/live
Mieruba would like to deeply thank Madame Françoise Huguier for her many years of support for Malian culture and music.
The magnificent concert photos accompanying the album are by her.

Mama Sissoko
Fondation Super Biton,Ségou
Françoise Huguier

01/12/2023

Idrissa Soumaoro's Diré still at the top of World Music Charts Europe (3rd place) and Transglobal World Music Chart (8th place)!!
Congratulations to Idrissa!
thanks to all the panelists!
Order your copy:
https://idrissa-soumaoro.bandcamp.com/album/dir
Stream:
https://songwhip.com/idrissa-soumaoro/dire
Climax Orchestra
Xango Music
Idrissa Soumaoro

29/11/2023

Chaque dernier Samedi du mois , Mieruba Art Center, Segou, Mali organise des Jam Sessions dénommée SÉGOU JAM.

L’initiative vise à promouvoir les échanges artistiques et facilité la transmission entre l’ancienne et la nouvelle génération. Ainsi les jeunes musiciens pourront bénéficier de l'expérience des anciens, et les anciens pourront transmettre leur savoir-faire et leur passion aux plus jeunes.

Ces rencontres mensuelles permettent également de renforcer la cohésion et l'unité de la communauté musicale du Mali. Les musiciens peuvent ainsi se retrouver régulièrement, échanger des idées, créer de nouvelles collaborations et contribuer ensemble à la promotion de la musique malienne.

L'événement permet également aux musiciens en herbe de faire leurs premiers pas sur scène en se joignant à des musiciens plus expérimentés. Cela favorise la transmission des connaissances et des compétences, et crée un environnement d'apprentissage mutuel.

SEGOU JAM ne se limitent pas à la scène musicale locale, mais sont également ouvertes à la participation d'artistes internationaux de passage à Ségou. Cela permet aux musiciens locaux d'entrer en contact avec des artistes et des styles musicaux différents, et d'élargir leur horizon musical.

L’initiative est soutenu par le projet « Donko ni Maaya – Prévention de crise et renforcement de la cohésion sociale à travers la promotion du secteur de la culture au Mali » mis en œuvre par la GIZ au compte du Ministère Fédéral des Affaires Etrangères Allemand.©Dugalen

28/11/2023

Idrissa Soumaoro in our much-loved radio show Mundofonias. enjoy the music!

photo by Nicola Réméné

Noticias de África News from Africa https://rtve-mediavod-lote3.rtve.es/resources/TE_SMILMUN/mp3/0/8/1700673397480.mp3 Viajamos por todo el continente

27/11/2023

Tidiani Kone (1926-2001), musicien malien renommé, et Fela Anikulapo Kuti, légendaire musicien nigérian, se sont rencontrés dans les années 1970 à Lagos, au Nigeria. Leur rencontre a été le point de départ d'une incroyable fusion musicale qui a donné naissance à un nouveau genre musical appelé l'afrobeat.

Tidiani Kone était déjà un musicien respecté au Mali, pour avoir former les premiers orchestre maliens. De son côté, Fela Kuti était une figure emblématique de la musique nigériane. Les deux hommes se sont rencontrés lors d'une visite de Tidiani au Nigeria et ils ont immédiatement trouvé une connexion musicale.

Tidiani a apporté son style de jeu, basé sur les rythmes traditionnels et les mélodies du Mali, tandis que Fela a apporté ses racines nigérianes et son engagement politique. Ensemble, ils ont créé une musique puissante,groovy et politiquement engagée qui était à la fois ancrée dans les traditions africaines et résolument moderne.

Malheureusement, leur collaboration fut de courte durée. Tidiani Kone est retourné au Mali pour fonder l’orchestre Rail-band et Fela Kuti a continué à développer l'afrobeat avec ses propres musiciens.

Cependant, l'impact de leur rencontre était immense. L'afrobeat est aujourd'hui reconnu comme l'un des genres musicaux les plus influents d'Afrique. Il a influencé de nombreux musiciens du monde entier et continue d'inspirer de nouvelles générations d'artistes.

La rencontre entre Tidiani Kone et Fela Kuti a créé une fusion musicale unique qui a élevé l'afrobeat à un niveau supérieur. Leur créativité, leur virtuosité et leur engagement politique ont été les piliers de cette collaboration fructueuse.

Cette rencontre entre deux talents exceptionnels a permis d'unir les traditions musicales du Mali et du Nigeria, créant ainsi un héritage culturel précieux qui se perpétue à travers l'afrobeat.

26/11/2023

"Mierubal ML in collaboration with Deviation Records, once again bringing us fantastic music from forgotten times. This time on the second album of Super Biton de Ségou"

Listen to latest Studio-Globe radio show featuring Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection Vol 2 by Super Biton de Ségou and more new great music!

Thank you Ruud Siebons

Fondation Super Biton,Ségou
Mama Sissoko
Deviation Records
Mieruba -ML
Mieruba Art Center, Segou, Mali

Mierubal Ml in collaboration with Deviation Records, once again bringing us fantastic music from forgotten times. This time on the second album of Super Biton de Segou. Voudou, the soundtrack to the book Voudou, compiled by music journalist Leendert van der Valk. The book and album show that Voodoo....

25/11/2023

Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection de la legendaire Orchestre Super Biton de Ségou dans la sélection musicale du « Monde Afrique » #170
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https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/11/24/tresors-d-avant-garde-la-selection-musicale-du-monde-afrique-170_6202181_3212.html
Fondation Super Biton,Ségou
Mama Sissoko
Deviation Records
order on bandcamp: https://superbitondesgou.bandcamp.com/album/afro-jazz-folk-collection-vol-2
listen on digital: https://songwhip.com/superbitondesegou/afro-jazz-folk-collection-vol-2

Des labels rééditent des morceaux novateurs enregistrés dans les années 1970, 1980 et 1990 au Mali, au Ghana et en Afrique du Sud.

25/11/2023

New review of Dire by Idrissa Soumaoro in the Swedish Lira Musikmagasin!

Mali Idrissa Soumaoro Diré Skivbolag: Mieruba Format: CD/DL Recenserad av: Niki Tegeland Publicerad: 24 nov 2023 Dela den här recensionen: Maliske kompositören, sångaren, gitarristen och n’goni-spelaren Idrissa Soumaoro har släppt sitt tredje soloalbum. Diré är namnet på staden som ligger ...

15/11/2023

"The album is full of great songs..." as is written on festivalinfo.nl about Doumbia's album 'Segou To Lagos', *** (label: Mieruba; Benelux distribution: Xango Music).
Review: https://tinyurl.com/mpm6ne
CD: https://tinyurl.com/95mpdjj8

13/11/2023

Nouveau Rebel Up Nightshop surligne, Novembre! 3,5 heurres avec chansons par Bxl groupe Touko Sari et Aziz Konkrite. Nouveau albums par ROGÊ via Diamond West Records, Idrissa Soumaoro via Mieruba -ML, Bokanté via Real World Records, Bxl groupe Azmari via Sdban Records, Flammer Dance Band via Lyskestrekk Records, Cherry Bandora via Rebel Up & Rumi Sounds, Lenhart Tapes via Glitterbeat Records, El Búho via Wonderwheel Recordings, Rizomagic via POLEN RECORDS, Nidia via Príncipe Discos, Deena Abdelwahed via InFiné and Saint Abdullah & Eomac via Planet Mu (OFFICIAL).

Ecoutez voici >>>
https://www.mixcloud.com/RebelUpNightshop/nightshop-111-idrissa-soumaoro-bokant%C3%A9-azmari-cherry-bandora-lenhart-tapes-el-buho-nidia/

11/11/2023

10/11/2023

📣📣📣SUPER BITON DE SEGOU - Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection Vol 2 OUT NOW!
Mieruba is thrilled to present this new collaboration with Deviation Records: the 2nd Volume of Super Biton de Segou’s Afro.Jazz.Folk collection. The collection includes early and rare 70s recordings showcasing the diverse musical roots of 1970s Mali, combining Afro-Latin percussion, Mandingo songs, jazzy brass, and funky guitar.

Ségou is a crossroads between the Bambara, Peul, Mandingo and Somono cultures, and Super Biton has drawn on all these traditions to create a repertoire extremely rich in rhythms and lyrics. The modern, sophisticated compositions incorporate electric instruments and brass, and open up to Cuban music, with congas and bongos completing the orchestra's sound. Super Biton triumphed at the Biennales Nationales du Mali in 1972, 1974 and 1976, thanks to its silky brass, subtle guitars, roaring bass, lyrical vocals and resolutely modern sound. Since then, it has become Mali's best-known and most sought-after orchestra outside the country's borders.

Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection presents previously unreleased tracks by the legendary orchestra that have been confided to Mieruba by members of the orchestra to bring them back into the limelight.

The album contains eleven tracks, the first of which, 'Nantan', serves as an introduction. It is followed by the stunning song 'Bouguel' which starts right in with one of Super Biton’s signature guitar riffs, urgent vocals and tart brass. Underneath and supporting these elements are the beautifully complex percussive mix of trap drums, shakers and hand drums including an impressive drum solo about mid-song. The horns and vocals reemerge and are followed by a more impressive guitar solo. The next song, 'Atou N Diaye', introduces a keyboard that carries the rhythm while the scorching guitar plays rippling notes on top.

And so it goes throughout the album: one rare gem of a song after another. These older recordings intentionally retain the original sound of the tapes whether recorded in live or studio settings. Super Biton’s version of the classic song 'Farafina' presented here is a standout in the collection as it is the one song that is a studio recording. Another outstanding moment is the band’s previously unheard version of 'Diarabi Muso', another classic interpreted here with the unique musical artistry that only Super Biton de Ségou can provide.

The Collection is a vibrant testimony to the musical effervescence that reigned in Ségou and in Mali in these years of overflowing cultural creativity and a tribute to all its talented musicians who crossed the road to Super Biton.
(Text with the contribution of David Noyes)
Order your copy: https://superbitondesgou.bandcamp.com/album/afro-jazz-folk-collection-vol-2
Listen on digital: https://songwhip.com/superbitondesegou/afro-jazz-folk-collection-vol-2
Fondation Super Biton,Ségou
Deviation Records
Mieruba Art Center, Segou, Mali

09/11/2023

Here is the interview with the Mieruba collective for the Italian magazine Nigrizia
Thanks again to Marcello Lorrai!
Mieruba -ML
Mieruba Art Center, Segou, Mali

08/11/2023

Latest review of 'Ségou to Lagos' by Solomane Doumbia on Jazzism magazine!
Thank you Pieter Franssen
Xango Music

Ségou To Lagos

07/11/2023

An article about Mieruba -ML Mieruba Art Center, Segou, Mali came out in italian jounal Nigrizia.
Many thanks to Marcello Lorrai for giving us a voice
'Music, our primary material'
A collective runs a cultural centre and a record label in Ségou, an unstable area. To keep the art scene alive and because 'music and the will to live cannot be stopped'. Many projects in the making..

In Mali un collettivo gestisce un centro culturale e una casa discografica in un’area instabile per tenere viva la scena artistica con la musica

03/11/2023

Diré by Idrissa Soumaoro in Sounds Venlo, Netherlands

Thank you Ruud Siebons from Studio-Globe for the photo and support!

03/11/2023

'The music has a rawness that's different than work from other parts of the West African scene at the time, and very unassuming production that gives these tracks an honest sense of power after all these years'

Ségou Power !

Afro.Jazz.Folk Collection Vol 2 cooming soon !!

Deviation Records

There's maybe more jazz here than folk – some incredible work on horns amidst the percussion and guitars of the large lineup of Super Biton De Segou – a legendary group from Mali, and one whose roots are given great presentation in this double-length set! The music has a rawness that's d...

01/11/2023

📣We are thrilled to announce that Diré by Idrissa Soumaoro is still at the top of the most prestigious music charts of world music!!
🥇 Diré is still number one on the World Music Charts Europe
🏅and number four on the Transglobal World Music Chart

Thanks to all the panelists and in particular to Ruud Siebons from Studio-Globe, a special radio-show dedicated to african music, for his long-standing support of Mieruba

We are enthusiastic about this result and congratulate Idrissa Soumaoro once again on his work!
We can officially say that Diré joins the long history of great Malian music! Thank you Maestro!

Climax Orchestra
Xango Music